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37458 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 127 / Tuesday, July 1, 2008 / Notices 

OMB provide paperwork clearance for 

the information collection noted herein. 

The FTC invites comments on: (1) 

whether the proposed collections of 

information are necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information has practical utility; (2) the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collections of 

information; (3) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collections of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

All comments should be filed as 

prescribed in the ADDRESSES section 

above, and must be received on or 

before September 2, 2008. 

1. Description of the collection of 

information and proposed use 

The Fair Credit Reporting Act 

(‘‘FCRA’’) provides identity theft 

victims with certain rights, such as the 

ability to place fraud alerts on their 

credit files, designed to assist them in 

avoiding or mitigating the harms they 

suffer as a result of the crime. 

The Commission intends to use 

consumer survey research to advance its 

understanding of the experiences of 

identity theft victims who interact with 

consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) and 

who seek to avail themselves of their 

FCRA remedies. The consumer research 

will include focus group interviews of 

30 consumers, to be followed by a 

pretesting phase consisting of phone 

interviews of another 30 consumers, and 

then mail surveys sent to individual 

consumers. The Commission seeks 

information from consumers who have 

been victims of identity theft and who 

have contacted one or more of the three 

nationwide CRAs for assistance. The 

information from consumers will be 

collected on a voluntary basis and will 

be maintained anonymously. The FTC 

staff will identify consumers to be 

contacted for each phase of the research 

from a random selection of consumers 

who have communicated with the FTC’s 

Identity Theft Data Clearinghouse 

database between January 1, 2008 and 

May 30, 2008. Staff is seeking 

approximately 1,000 returned surveys 

because that input would enable it to 

project the results from the sample to 

the population from which the sample 

was drawn with a maximum error rate 

of 3%. Assuming a response rate of 

about 25% - 30%, this would require 

staff to mail the survey to approximately 

3,000 - 4,000 individuals. 

Questions to identity theft victims in 

the research will address several topics, 

including but not limited to: victim 

experiences when they contacted one or 

more CRAs and whether they received 

the required notice of rights from CRAs; 

their access to free credit reports; and 

their ability to place fraud alerts on their 

files, dispute inaccurate information, 

and block information due to identity 

theft. The results of the focus groups 

and mail surveys will assist the FTC in 

assessing the experiences of identity 

theft victims when they interact with 

CRAs. This assessment will help to 

inform and guide the FTC’s future 

efforts to enforce provisions of the 

FCRA and to educate consumers and the 

consumer reporting industry of their 

rights and obligations under the FCRA. 

2. Estimated hours burden 

The FTC staff intends to include a 

total of 30 consumers divided between 

three separate focus groups, consisting 

of 10 per group, and estimates that each 

consumer will take approximately one 

hour to participate in the focus groups. 

Thus, the estimated annual burden 

imposed by the focus groups will be 

approximately 30 hours. The staff 

estimates that respondents to the mail 

survey will require, on average, 

approximately 8 minutes to answer the 

survey (based on anticipated variations 

among consumers when they interacted 

with CRAs). The staff will pretest the 

survey through phone interviews of 

approximately 30 respondents to ensure 

that all questions are easily understood. 

The pretest will take approximately 4 

hours as a whole (30 respondents x 8 

minutes each). For the full survey, the 

staff intends to mail 3,000-4,000 surveys 

and anticipates receiving a response rate 

as high as 30% of the consumer 

recipients (i.e., 900 - 1,200 responses). 

Assuming 1,200 consumers respond to 

the survey, the staff further estimates 

the final survey will require 

approximately 160 hours to complete 

(1,200 respondents x 8 minutes each). 

Thus, cumulative burden hours for the 

clearance would total 194 hours. 

3. Estimated cost burden 

The cost per respondent should be 

negligible. Participation is voluntary 

and will not require start-up, capital, or 

labor expenditures by respondents. 

William Blumenthal 

General Counsel 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health; Designation of a 

Class of Employees for Addition to the 

Special Exposure Cohort 

AGENCY: National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) gives notice of a 

decision to designate a class of 

employees at the Kellex/Pierpont 

facility in Jersey City, New Jersey, as an 

addition to the Special Exposure Cohort 

(SEC) under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000. On May 30, 2008, 

the Secretary of HHS designated the 

following class of employees as an 

addition to the SEC: 

All Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE) 

employees who worked at the Kellex/ 

Pierpont facility in Jersey City, New Jersey, 

from January 1, 1943, through December 31, 

1953, for a number of work days aggregating 

at least 250 work days occurring either solely 

under this employment or in combination 

with work days within the parameters 

established for one or more other classes of 

employees in the Special Exposure Cohort. 

This designation will become 

effective on June 29, 2008, unless 

Congress provides otherwise prior to the 

effective date. After this effective date, 

HHS will publish a notice in the 

Federal Register reporting the addition 

of this class to the SEC or the result of 

any provision by Congress regarding the 

decision by HHS to add the class to the 

SEC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 

Compensation Analysis and Support, 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 

Columbia Parkway, MS C–46, 

Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 513– 

533–6800 (this is not a toll-free 

number). Information requests can also 

be submitted by e-mail to 

OCAS@CDC.GOV. 

Dated: June 16, 2008. 

John Howard, 

Director, National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. E8–14821 Filed 6–30–08; 8:45 am] 

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